将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次

A. play a trick on        B. open       C. perfect     D. close       E. wrong

There was once a wise old lady who lived on a hill. All the children used to go and ask her questions. She always gave them 【小题1】 answers.

There was a little boy among the children. One day he caught a little bird and held it in his hands without anybody seeing it. Suddenly he had an idea and asked his friends to go with him.

“Let’s 【小题2】 the old lady,” he said. “I’ll ask her what I’m holding in my hands. Of course, she’ll answer that I have a bird. Then I’ll ask her whether the bird is alive or not. If she says the bird is dead, then I’ll 【小题3】 my hands and let the bird fly away. If she says the bird is alive, I’ll quickly kill it and show her the dead bird. Either way, she’ll be 【小题4】.”

A. noticed        B. agreed     C. enough     D. alive     E. must

The children 【小题5】 this was a clever plan. So they all went to the old lady’s house together.

“Granny, we have a question for you,” they all shouted.

“What’s in my hands?” the little boy asked.

“Why, of course it 【小题6】 be a bird,” the old lady replied. “But is it 【小题7】 or dead?” the boy asked excitedly.

All the boys waited for her answer and got ready to laugh at her.

The old lady thought for a moment and then replied, “It’s up to you, my dear child. If you’re kind 【小题8】, it’ll be alive.